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A companion to art theory / edited by Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 5.
- Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Philosophy--History.
- Art.
- Art criticism--History.
- Art criticism.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (552 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.
- Contents:
- 11 E. H. Gombrich and the Tradition of Hegel12 German Romanticism and French Aesthetic Theory; 13 Expression: Natural, Personal, Pictorial; 14 Reading Artists' Words; 15 Nietzsche and the Artist; 16 Wittgenstein, Description, and Adrian Stokes (on Cézanne); 17 Modernism and the Idea of the Avant-Garde; 18 On the Intention of Modern(ist) Art; 19 Anti-Art and the Concept of Art; 20 Marcel Duchamp's Readymades and Anti-Aesthetic Reflex; Part III: Critical Theory and Postmodernism; 21 Marxism and Critical Art History; 22 Walter Benjamin and Art Theory; 23 Bakhtin and the Visual Arts
- 24 Peirce's Visuality and the Semiotics of Art25 Conceptual Art; 26 Barthes on Art; 27 Foucault and Art; 28 Derrida and the Parergon; 29 What Consciousness Forgets: Lyotard's Concept of the Sublime; 30 Deleuze on Francis Bacon; 31 Feminisms and Art Theory; 32 Psycho-Phallus (Qu'est-ce que c'est?); Part IV: Interpretation and the Institution of Art; 33 The Rules of Representation; 34 Gombrich and Psychology; 35 Hermeneutics and Art Theory; 36 Reciprocity and Reception Theory; 37 The Paradox of Creative Interpretation in Art; 38 Interdisciplinarity and Visual Culture
- 39 Against Curatorial Imperialism: Merleau-Ponty and the Historicity of Art40 The Institutional Theory of Art: Theory and Antitheory; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610284290
- 9780470998427
- 0470998423
- 9781782684244
- 1782684247
- 9781280284298
- 1280284293
- 9780470998434
- 0470998431
- 9780585470917
- 058547091X
- OCLC:
- 53222179
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